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Account security is 100% the user's responsibility. Random accounts simply do not get randomly "hacked." Simple as.
The most effective means of protecting your inventory is to not give away your account credentials by being greedy and gullible.
Not a single third party site can be trusted no matter how many random nobody YouTubers tell you otherwise. Not a single site, nor Steam Group, can be trusted no matter how many people use it (or claim to use it) and tell you it is safe, or they never had a problem.
Never vote for someone's team.
Never try to get that $50 gift.
Never listen to anyone on Discord saying they accidently reported you ...
...or that they are an admin ... or that they want to be friends and/or trade.
Trust no one.
YOUR account ios compromized...
But if you had been more careful with account security, none of this would have happened to you.
The issue is PEBCAK. Account security is the responsibility of the account holder. If you get your account compromised (which is needed for an API scam), that's on you. So are the consequences.
Now, it's your account, your items, your problem.
Keyword "if", because not everyone claims they've been scammed in hopes of getting items back from a trade they regret is being honest.
A lot of victims have a problem where they believe the system should re-align around their concerns. And they don't account for all the reasons why the system is like it is currently.
End of the day, trades aren't reversed, market transactions are final, and that's very good incentive to keep your account secure because failure to do so has tangible consequences, like it or not. So, how many times will you need to learn the lesson?
-Claim your account was 'scammed' to Support
-Support gives you the item back
-Now you have the item AND the money.
That happened enough times as for Steam to give a second thought to give back items.
Also.
-User gets scammed.
-User asks Steam for his items back
-Steam returns his items.
-User gets scammed again.
Some people unfortunately need to feel the burn to learn not to touch fire. Steam giving items back made too many people have a false sense of security that got them more likely and repeatedly into scams (Because well, they could always ask Support for their stuff back)
Because "stolen" can be faked. Use a vpn to log in, transfer to middleman account, claim they were "stole" and get cloned copies as Valve will not take the item from some end user who was innocent, all simply because people are irresponsible with their account.
like everybody stated, items are not return. Also with scammers, those items most likely been traded away from that account what was used, and keep in mind, some profiles most likely is some user profile what was compromised